Extreme Networks Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Extreme Networks
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring knowledge or experience of Extreme Networks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Extreme Networks over the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Extreme Networks.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Extreme Networks 11 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.46% - 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £92 - £492
25th Percentile £162 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - £605
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £409 - £608
90th Percentile £482 - -
South East median daily rate £388 - £605
% change year-on-year - - +28.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

Extreme Networks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,279 820 1,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 53.65% 48.96% 50.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 513 899
10th Percentile £268 £300 £205
25th Percentile £402 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 19 74
10th Percentile £15.69 £18.30 £16.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.08 £23.72
Median hourly rate £29.61 £56.75 £51.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.82% +9.59% +10.16%
75th Percentile £81.00 £65.62 £62.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.44 £65.18
South East median hourly rate £26.97 £29.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.00% -38.95% +5.56%

Extreme Networks
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Extreme Networks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Extreme Networks job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Extreme Networks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Extreme Networks

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Extreme Networks in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Extreme Networks in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Extreme Networks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Extreme Networks

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Extreme Networks in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Extreme Networks in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Networks within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 11 £283 - 7
Extreme Networks
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) BGP
1 11 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
1 11 (100.00%) Junos
1 11 (100.00%) LAN
1 11 (100.00%) OSPF
1 11 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 11 (100.00%) WAN
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco ISE
General
1 4 (36.36%) Military
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall Specialist
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Network Specialist
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
1 5 (45.45%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Clustering
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 11 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) High Availability
1 11 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 11 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 11 (100.00%) Observability
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Availability Management
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) ITSM
3 5 (45.45%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
4 5 (45.45%) JNCIA
4 5 (45.45%) JNCIP
4 5 (45.45%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
1 11 (100.00%) F5
1 11 (100.00%) Juniper
1 11 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk